How to Build Work You'll Never Want to Retire From: Your Signature Strengths & Career Alignment

Happen To Your Career - Meaningful Work, Career Change, Career Design, & Job Search · Jun 1, 2026 · 11m

Most people plan for retirement because it's what you're supposed to do. But the real question almost no one asks first is whether the work they're doing right now is even built around their strengths in the first place.

Because if it isn't, retirement won't actually fix the problem. The restlessness most retirees describe inside the first year is the same friction they had been ignoring in the years before they left.

This episode walks through why retirement is a relatively new concept, what the Gallup research from Jim Harter actually shows about strengths and engagement at work, and the…